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Branded as the most hated man in wrestling after winning a highly controversial WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2000, actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career. Dangerously determined to redeem his reputation and reclaim his self-respect, Arquette will stop at nothing to earn his place in professional wrestling.
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Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most dynamic actresses in American film history. Her beauty and glamorous lifestyle made her an icon during Hollywood's Golden Age. She evolved into a great humanitarian, and would eventually revolutionize the world of fashion. However, her success came with its fair share of drug use, love affairs, and scandals. In this detailed docu-drama, we explore the legend of Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor.
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Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see: a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the world's brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that, once revealed, show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak, and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen.
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Focuses on 1955, the last year of James Dean's life, when he made the three films that brought him fame: East of Eden, Rebel without a cause, and Giant. Uses film clips, behind-the-scenes footage, archival photos, and on-camera interviews with colleagues, including Mark Rydell, Martin Landau, Eartha Kitt, Lois Smith, Dennis Stock, and Corey Allen, to reveal the person behind the archetypal on-screen adolescent rebel.
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Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin rocketed to fame from the slums of Victorian London and spent decades as one of Hollywood's most famous and beloved stars until his scandalous fall from grace. His stage persona and incendiary media portrayal defined how he was perceived, but his private life has always been shrouded in mystery until now. Never-before-heard recordings, intimate home movies, and newly restored classic films reveal a side to Chaplin that...
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The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen...
10) Sid & Judy
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A revealing new look at legendary entertainer Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy's own inimitable words. What emerges is a complex portrait of a woman whose vulnerabilities were exploited by an industry she helped to build but whose resilience and extraordinary talent made her the quintessential...
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Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903-October 14, 1977) was, without doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the 20th century. For more than three decades, through radio, film, television and records, he reigned supreme. Bing Crosby Rediscovered, explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a man far more complex than his public persona.Crosby’s estate, HLC Properties, Ltd., granted American Masters unprecedented...
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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.